Maryann Simko (Taisha Abelar) Quotes
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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I rely on myself very much. I just think that you have an instinct and you go with it. Especially when it comes to deal-making and buying things.
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Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
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Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.
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Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
